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Zoe Nicholson - Love What You Eat Dietitian

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Zoe Nicholson - Love What You Eat Dietitian

Love What You Eat dietitians use The Non-Diet Approach and Intuitive Eating to help you be free from dieting.

20+years healing relationships with food & body
NonDiet, Size Inclusive Health, IntuitiveEating, Eating Disorders, Food intolerance, Gut Isdues
Do need help with your relationship with food?
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0419585415 We show you how to nurture a healthy relationship with food and your body. Our dietitians love food and we are passionate about helping others rediscover the pleasure of food and eating! Please visit www.lovewhatyoueat.com.au to learn more about how we can help you.

01/09/2025

What is the easiest way to identify a balanced meal?

Just look at any cultures traditional cuisine…

These meals contain:

A carbohydrate
A protein source
A fat source
And veggies

I don’t believe it’s a coincidence that all these meals have a similar nutritional profile, they didn’t get the idea from a text book as many of these meals have been around much longer than nutrition science. I believe humans developed meals with this balance as this is what feels good to eat, this is what satisfies us. The fact these meals also deliver all our nutrition is just a byproduct of eating in a way that feels good!

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians and food lovers!

29/08/2025

Healthy can be sharing any delicious food with friends with appreciation for the food and without any sense of guilt.

This could be pizza, cake, a fruit platter, cheese platter or a block of chocolate!

This photo was taken by me Yarraville, my favourite pizza place in the whole world!

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians who love food!

27/08/2025

It seems in Australia that the message to eat 5 serves of vegetables daily, leaves people feeling like they are failing at eating well if they have a meal without veggies, especially green veggies.

This can lead to feeling stressed and shameful around food choices and in some cases - I see this with many of my clients - making poorer food choices because it all just gets too hard.

For example, rather than eating spaghetti bolognese with the kids (because no green veg or not enough veg), my clients might nibble on bits and pieces and then overdo sweets later on as what they ate for dinner just wasn’t enough or didn’t satisfy.

To quote the authors of the intuitive eating book, “nutrition doesn’t happen meal to meal”. Nutrition happens over many meals and many days. So if you have a few days with little/no veggies or fruit, that is not going to damage your nutrition. Chances are, after a few days of no fruit/veggies, you’re going to feel like some!

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians and food lovers!

26/08/2025

So how is your relationship with food?

When your relationship with food is difficult, dietary changes can backfire. You can quickly become preoccupied or rigid with the changes and when you’re unable to stick to them (no one can 100%), your feelings of guilt or shame can escalate. This often leads the “what the hell effect” where you end up over-eating the very food you intended to eat less of.

A healthy relationship with food means you can start to let go of any shame, distress or preoccupation around food with regard to your health or body size and shape. Instead you can learn to take pleasure in food and eating in a way that feels right for you and thoughts about food take up relatively little mental space. Unsure about yours? Take our free quiz - second link in bio

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians and food lovers!

23/08/2025

When you’re struggling to come up with an idea for lunch (a very common thing), a cheese toastie will always do the job!

But because diet culture and the “wellness industry” is allowed to say whatever they want with little regulation, we have reached a point where educated and intelligent people now truly believe a toasted cheese sandwich is unhealthy.

I am constantly surprising my clients when I explain that a toasted cheese sandwich can be a perfectly nutritious meal.

In fact, if all you ate for an entire day was toasted cheese sandwiches (using white bread), you’d get most of your macronutrients and micronutrients, only being low in Vitamin C and a little low Vitamin B6, Magnesium and Iron. Make the sandwich with grainy bread and then you’re only low in Vitamin C and Vitamin B6. Throw in half an orange and you have your vitamin C needs for the day…

Another awesome thing about cheese toasties is all the different things you can add or different types of cheese you can use. I love adding red onion (or garlic) and chilli.

Tell us your favourite addition to the humble cheese toastie.

Curious about our approach to nutrition? We are taking new clients, text us today 0419 585 415

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians and food lovers!

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You don’t need fancy “superfood”
ingredients to eat well

A toasted cheese sandwich is perfectly nutritious meal

20/08/2025

Just a little reflection.

While humans don’t need to be lean or slim to be healthy, the world we live in makes it very difficult to be comfortable with your body if it’s seen as “too big”.

It is easier to move through the world in a smaller body for many different reasons and so it’s understandable why people will try anything, even when they know deep down it may not help long-term.

And along the way, the many other aspect of health, including social connection, mental and emotional health, doing movement that feels good, eating in a way that feels good and doing things in life that you enjoy, can start to suffer.

Until the world fully recognises that healthy bodies come in all different shapes and sizes, weight stigma will be rampant and people will continue to try everything possible to lose weight - even if it harms them in the long run.

We want to help minimise this harm by helping people build better relationships with food and body and learn how to navigate a world that makes us feel shame around body shape and size.

Zoe
Kerrie

18/08/2025

While we don’t actively recommend these medications, we are seeing more and more people who are taking them, and we completely understand why. Many people come to us with questions around how they can ensure the benefits they are seeing can be maintained and what they need to be eating, especially protein wise, to help make the most of the treatment.

I am finding most people are aware the results are unlikely to be maintained long-term unless they also do work to improve their eating behaviours and relationship with food.

Given the muscle wasting that often occurs along side weight loss which has implications for metabolism long-term (just like dieting), everyone should be aware of the pros and cons before making what is a big decision with your health and body. Discussing the pros and cons is something we can help you with.

If you are taking one of the weight loss medications, or thinking about starting, and you have questions or feel you need help to ensure your treatment is as safe as possible and not just like going on another diet, we’d love to hear from you. Text us today 0419 585 415.

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians and food lovers!

17/08/2025

Just because someone is bigger, doesn’t mean they eat a lot. Many of our clients when they come to us, are already eating fairly well, often they are not eating large amounts and sometimes they are eating less than what might considered adequate.

We simply can’t judge what or how much a person eats based on their size.

And one can enjoy donuts and soft drinks as part of a healthy balanced diet and lifestyle. Eating a donut or enjoying a soft drink is not inherently unhealthy.

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians and food lovers!

12/08/2025

Still my favourite nutrition quote… so very true!

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians and food lovers!

11/08/2025

In almost all cultures, carbohydrates form the base of meals. They are the medium for which we can enjoy all our other nutrients such as protein, fat, vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals (such as anti-oxidants).

For example;

Cereal with milk & fruit
Sandwich with meat, cheese & salad
Pasta with meat/seafood, veggies, herbs & spices, cheese

This is what balanced eating means.

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians and food lovers!

09/08/2025

This is a scenario I often use with my clients. Almost always, people agree that yes it would be fine to eat if they were smaller. Some food for thought…

If you’re a little confused by this, we’d love to explore this further with you if you’re keen to explore a non-diet/intuitive eating approach to health.

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians and food lovers!

06/08/2025

When I ask my clients to name a food they really enjoy but that they feel is unhealthy, hot chips are very commonly mentioned. When I ask people why they feel these are unhealthy, the answers involve chips being deep fried, high in carbohydrates and fat - or my favourite - no nutritional value

But potatoes are a rich source of carbohydrates and many other nutrients. And deep frying food doesn’t negate all the good nutrition in the food. Many cultures have food fried in oil as part of their traditional cuisine and humans have been deep frying food for centuries, we even have evidence of the ancient Egyptians deep frying food as early as 2500 BC.

Choosing to not eat certain food in the name of health, usually only serves to make these foods more desirable and seemingly harder to resist when they are available. This can lead to eating more than you’re hungry for when you have the opportunity - known as the “I’ll get it while I can” effect. Which can then lead on to the “I’ve blown it now, may as well just keep eating and I’ll be good tomorrow”.

Eating to feeling too full and then bad about yourself, usually only serves to erode your relationship with food and takes away from the joy of eating and from your overall nutrition.

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians and food lovers!

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